UPDATE: 2008 Senate race: Democrats at a 10-seat lead
A nation waits with baited breath to see whether humorist Al Franken will become Senator Al Franken.
UPDATE: 2008 Presidential race: Obama takes Virginia and is projected the new President of the United States
By taking Virginia and the Western states, Obama is projected as the new President of the United States.
2008 Congressional Race: Perriello appears to win!
We may have to wait until the dust settles, but for all intents and purposes, it seems as if Tom Perriello has defeated Virgil Goode for the Fifth District congressional seat.
YEAH!!!!!!
[UPDATED 2:17am] Just back from the Gravity Lounge, where Tom Perriello and the C-ville Dems cheered the great news tonight in Virginia.
Latest poll puts Perriello within 3 points
Tom Perriello has come a long way, literally and figuratively, in the past two and a half months. While he’s racked up the mileage traveling the expansive Fifth Congressional District in his bid to unseat six-term incumbent Virgil Goode, he has also closed a 34 point gap in mid-August to a mere three points, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted this weekend with a margin of sampling error of 4 points.
Positive Signs?
The Washington Post’s “Comics Riffs” blog is reporting that Garry Trudeau has drawn a cartoon for Wednesday presuming an Obama victory.
Virginia, race and politics before election day
Tomorrow is election day and the Commonwealth is still up for grabs. The latest polls reveal that Barack Obama has a single digit lead over John McCain.
A change is gonna come: Your 2008 election playlist.
Add your political anthems and campaign songs today, music lovers. Tomorrow’s going to bring some ch-ch-ch-changes…
Welcome to the C-VILLE election blog
For the next 24 hours, C-VILLE will be posting regularly to this blog on the 2008 election as voters head to the polls and the state tallies those ballots.
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